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High Court upholds CFA despite legal aid certificate remaining in place
Tuesday, 16 February 2016The High Court has ruled that a conditional fee agreement was valid even though the claimant’s legal aid certificate remained in place. Mr Justice Soole ruled that the certificate had been discharged by conduct.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreement, LASPO, legal aid
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, News
High Court upholds claim against liquidator “personally responsible” for paying CFA fees
Monday, 1 June 2015The High Court has rejected an appeal against a Master’s decision to hold that a liquidator was “personally responsible” to pay his solicitors and barristers’ fees under a conditional fee agreement (CFA).
Tags: CFA, insolvency
Posted in ATE/CFA, News
Indemnity principle argument fails to stop payment on account of costs in CFA case
Monday, 27 April 2015The High Court has rejected an argument that it would be a breach of the indemnity principle to make a payment on account of costs to claimants funded by a conditional fee agreement.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreement, indemnity principle
Posted in ATE/CFA, Costs, News
Budgeting has “forced costs up”, LSLA says
Friday, 12 December 2014Budgeting has “forced costs up and will continue to do so”, John Bramhall, president of the London Solicitors Litigation Association, has said. His comments came as 85% of litigators predicted that post-Jackson budgeting would increase costs.
Tags: ATE insurance, CFA, conditional fee agreements, costs budgeting, damages-based agreements, DBA, Jackson reforms
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, News
QOCS “does not apply” to appeals in PI cases started pre-LASPO
Monday, 24 November 2014Qualified one-way costs shifting (QOCS) does not apply on appeal if it did not apply at first instance, Master Haworth has ruled in the Senior Court Costs Office.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreements, personal injury, QOCS, qualified one-way costs-shifting
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, News
Barristers struggling with costs budgeting, survey finds
Friday, 19 September 2014Large numbers of barristers are struggling with costs budgeting, with some submitting budgets without even seeing the papers, Bar Council research has shown. It also found that barristers are now much more wary of taking work under CFAs.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreements, costs budgeting, damages-based agreements, DBA
Posted in ATE/CFA, DBAs, Jackson reforms, News
“Slip, mistake or oversight” over funding notice was not significant failure, High Court rules
Tuesday, 12 August 2014The failure by a claimant’s solicitors to inform the other side of a replacement conditional fee agreement could be accurately described as a “slip, mistake or oversight” and not a “significant” failure under the ruling in Denton, the High Court has decided.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreements, Denton, Mitchell, relief from sanctions, success fee
Posted in Jackson reforms, News
Barristers suffering post-LASPO, says survey
Monday, 14 July 2014More than half of barristers conducting civil litigation have seen their income fall since implementation of the Jackson reforms, Bar Council research has found. Many barristers have also experienced problems with the transition from pre to post Jackson CFAs.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreements
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, News
Legal Ombudsman urges regulators to act over CFA concerns
Friday, 4 July 2014The profession’s regulators have failed to respond to a Legal Ombudsman report outlining its concerns about the way lawyers are operating conditional fee agreements (CFAs), the chief ombudsman has complained.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreements, Legal Ombudsman, LeO
Posted in ATE/CFA, News
Legal Aid Agency bids to map CFA market
Thursday, 29 May 2014The Legal Aid Agency has extended the deadline for an online survey on the availability of conditional fee agreements (CFAs) when clients are looking for legal help.
Tags: CFA, conditional fee agreements, legal aid
Posted in ATE/CFA, News